Parable of the Mustard Seed Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.To what did Jesus liken the kingdom of heaven in this parable?
- A. A pearl
- B. A grain of mustard seed ✓
- C. A lamp
- D. A vine
Answer: A grain of mustard seed
The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.
Q2.Who took and sowed the seed?
- A. A king
- B. A man ✓
- C. A servant
- D. A child
Answer: A man
Which a man took, and sowed in his field.
Q3.How is the mustard seed described in size?
- A. Smallest of all seeds ✓
- B. Like a pebble
- C. Like a barley grain
- D. Like dust
Answer: Smallest of all seeds
Which indeed is the least of all seeds.
Q4.What does it become when grown?
- A. A flower
- B. The greatest among herbs, a tree ✓
- C. A vine
- D. A bush
Answer: The greatest among herbs, a tree
It is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree.
Q5.Who come to lodge in its branches?
- A. Bees
- B. The birds of the air ✓
- C. Sheep
- D. Children
Answer: The birds of the air
So that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches.
Q6.What parable did Jesus speak next, also of the kingdom?
- A. The pearl
- B. The leaven ✓
- C. The lost sheep
- D. The talents
Answer: The leaven
The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven.
Q7.In how many measures of meal did the woman hide the leaven?
- A. Two
- B. Three ✓
- C. Five
- D. Seven
Answer: Three
Which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal.
Q8.What does the mustard seed teach about small beginnings?
- A. They are useless
- B. They grow to great influence ✓
- C. They must be many
- D. They die quickly
Answer: They grow to great influence
The kingdom grows from small beginnings to global reach.
Q9.Jesus said faith as a mustard seed can do what?
- A. Heal the sick
- B. Remove a mountain ✓
- C. Calm the sea
- D. Feed the hungry
Answer: Remove a mountain
Ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove.
Q10.In which Gospels is the parable of the mustard seed recorded?
- A. Matthew only
- B. Matthew, Mark, and Luke ✓
- C. John only
- D. All four Gospels
Answer: Matthew, Mark, and Luke
It is found in Matthew 13, Mark 4, and Luke 13.